Dangote turns 69 as Tinubu leads tributes, NNPC doubles crude supply and $100bn expansion plan takes shape
Billionaires Africa | 11.04.2026 17:38
Aliko Dangote turned 69 on Friday with more than birthday tributes to mark the occasion. Africa's richest man, worth $32.5 billion according to Bloomberg, is at the center of the most consequential expansion in Dangote Group's history, and the developments of the past two weeks have underscored just how much is now in motion. President Bola Tinubu issued a public tribute crediting Dangote's "entrepreneurial vision, resilience, innovation and commitment to excellence" with repositioning Nigeria as a hub for large-scale petrochemical and cement production. What the statement left unsaid is that Dangote is not at the end of that story. He is barely at its midpoint.
